This letter was never sent, but it was the beginning of her famous diary.
While on board the ship young Nin wrote a letter to lure her father back to the family. In a blow that affected her all of her life, Nin’s composer father, Joaquin Nin, abandoned his wife and children, forcing them to set sail for a new life America. Her Cuban-born parents lived as genteel artists, mainly in Paris and Spain. Nin’s diary focused on her interior life and became the chronicle of her search for fulfillment in what was often for women a painfully restrictive culture.Īnais Nin was born in France in 1903. She began what became her life-long work of art in 1914 at the age of eleven and kept writing until her death 63 years later in 1977.
An Introduction to the World of Anais NinĪnais Nin was a 20th century diarist.
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